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Meaning of "moonquake" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MOONQUAKE

moonquake  [ˈmuːnˌkweɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOONQUAKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Moonquake is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MOONQUAKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quake (natural phenomenon)

A quake is the result when the substance of a planet, moon or star begins to shake, usually as the consequence of a sudden release of energy transmitted as seismic waves, and potentially with great violence. Types of quakes include...

Definition of moonquake in the English dictionary

The definition of moonquake in the dictionary is a light tremor of the moon, detected on the moon's surface.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MOONQUAKE


awake
əˈweɪk
earthquake
ˈɜːθˌkweɪk
kittiwake
ˈkɪtɪˌweɪk
late-wake
ˈleɪtˌweɪk
lichwake
ˈlɪtʃˌweɪk
lyke-wake
ˈlaɪkˌweɪk
marsquake
ˈmɑːzˌkweɪk
microearthquake
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈɜːθˌkweɪk
microquake
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌkweɪk
quake
kweɪk
reawake
ˌriːəˈweɪk
rewake
ˌriːˈweɪk
seaquake
ˈsiːˌkweɪk
unawake
ˌʌnəˈweɪk
wake
weɪk
waterquake
ˈwɔːtərˌkweɪk
youthquake
ˈjuːθˌkweɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOONQUAKE

moonlet
moonlight
moonlight flit
moonlight night
moonlighter
moonlighting
moonlike
moonlit
moonphase
moonport
moonraker
moonraking
moonrise
moonrock
moonsail
moonscape
moonseed
moonset
moonshine
moonshiner

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOONQUAKE

bake
Blake
Boobquake
brake
bukkake
cake
cupcake
drake
fake
intake
jake
lake
make
mistake
pound cake
sake
shake
snake
stake
take

Synonyms and antonyms of moonquake in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «moonquake» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MOONQUAKE

Find out the translation of moonquake to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of moonquake from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «moonquake» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

月震
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

terremoto lunar
570 millions of speakers

English

moonquake
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

moonquake
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

moonquake
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

moonquake
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

moonquake
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

moonquake
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moonquake
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gempa bumi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mondbeben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

月震
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

moonquake
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lepen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

moonquake
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

moonquake
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चंद्रकोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

moonquake
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Moonquake
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

moonquake
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

moonquake
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

moonquake
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

moonquake
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moonquake
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

moonquake
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

moonquake
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of moonquake

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOONQUAKE»

The term «moonquake» is used very little and occupies the 152.646 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MOONQUAKE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «moonquake» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «moonquake» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about moonquake

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOONQUAKE»

Discover the use of moonquake in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to moonquake and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Planets and Moons: Treatise on Geophysics
(a) 60 5040 30 20E v e n t s p e r w e e k 10 0 0 100 200 Time (weeks) 300 400 102 101 100 P S D ( e v e n t s / d a y 2 d a y s ) (b) 10–1 101 102 103 Period ( days) Figure 11 Deep moonquake activity. (a) Number of moonquakes per week vs ...
Tilman Spohn, 2010
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Planetary Tectonics
6.3 Basin-localized seismicity The deep moonquake source regions generally occur around the edges of, or beneath, the major nearside basins (Plate 10). Furthermore, with the exception of two source regions in Serenitatis and one in ...
Thomas R. Watters, Richard A. Schultz, 2010
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Tenth International Symposium on Earch Tide
Concerning temporal variations in the tidal stresses, Figure 5 shows some more significant components of the stress tensor calculated for moonquake focus A1( 10.8°S, 3l.3°W, 900—km depth). '5¥ \$K/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/W u\6 AMpL|m|3£. mm ...
Ricardo Vieira, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1986
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Issues in Biophysics and Geophysics Research and ...
233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013-1578, USA. (2011 MAR 3) USGS, Flagstaff: A simple physical model for deep moonquake occurrence times “The physical process that results in moonquakes is not yet fully understood. The periodic ...
‎2013
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
1969 to JAN. 1972 STATION 12 1969 1970 1971 1972 in such plots. If we examine the activity at a given moonquake focus, as shown in Fig. 3 for the active zone designated Ai, we can recognize not only the monthly and seven-month cycles, ...
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THE DYNAMIC EARTH SYSTEM
The clustering of moonquake foci on the near side have also been related to the Earth's gravitational pull and the tidal force exerted on the lunar interior (Goins et al., 1977; Bolt, 1982). Would it create such a stress that may surpass the stress ...
A. M. PATWARDHAN, 2012
7
Wanderers in Space: Exploration and Discovery in the Solar ...
The moonquakes never exceed a magnitude of 2 on the Richter scale. If you stood directly over the strongest moonquake you would not even feel your feet shake. (The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on a logarithmic Richter scale, ...
Kenneth R. Lang, 1991
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New Scientist
The moonquake detector (so delicately put together as to register impacts of meteorites falling near it on the Moon as well as tremors of the interior of the Moon itself) obviously could not reach a position in which it could function meaningfully.
9
Popular Science
As our Consulting Editor on Space, he contributes frequent articles on exciting developments in the space program. Puzzling recordings of Apollo moonquake detector, watched as they come in at Houston by Dr. Gary Latham (left), now are ...
10
Origin of the Earth and Moon
Of these, the model of Nakamura (1983) (Fig. 3) is probably most accurate because it was the first to be based on the complete five-year Apollo record and analyzed signals from more deep moonquake sources (41) than had been considered ...
Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOONQUAKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term moonquake is used in the context of the following news items.
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Excerpts of talks between Apollo 11 crew and mission control
CONTROL: Tranquility base, this is Houston. The moonquake seisometer has been engaged and we're observing short period oscillations. «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
2
Quakes occur on moon? That's what study by Indian geology …
Frequent Flyer 5. Member 1. Know more about Times Points. • Unknown • 29 days ago •Follow. Moonquake became a cake for the scientist. «Times of India, Jun 15»
3
Kids learn to improvise from egg-drop experiment, Apollo 13
... Norcross, was to deliver Emergency Generator Gear — the EGG — to the Challenger Moon Base, which had been rocked by a “moonquake.”. «Bloomington Pantagraph, Apr 15»
4
5 Rihanna Movie Appearances Before 'Home'
... movie-within-a-movie moment when Jamie Foxx's character, Will Stacks, takes Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) to the cinema to see MoonQuake ... «Radio.com Music and Entertainment News, Mar 15»
5
Total solar eclipse cloaks North Atlantic Ocean
The Lunar Module's impact created an artificial moonquake that reverberated for more than an hour. After Apollo 13's third stage impacted the ... «Press TV, Mar 15»
6
Who is Beck, the man behind the 2015 Album of The Year 'Morning …
Most recently, he worked with fellow Grammy nominee Sia on “Moonquake Lake,” which was featured on the soundtrack for the 2014 film ... «Christian Science Monitor, Feb 15»
7
Beck to release new album before summer according to Norway's …
He recently teamed up with Sia for a new song, 'Moonquake Lake', on the soundtrack to the new adaptation of 'Annie', which was executive ... «NME.com, Jan 15»
8
Movie review: New 'Annie' fails to tap fresh potential
Similarly inspired is the premiere of the fake “Twilight”-like “MoonQuake Lake,” starring Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher and “directed” by Phil ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jan 15»
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MoonQuake Lake Trailer With Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
The characters in the film go to see a movie, and they — and we — get to see a trailer for MoonQuake Lake, a supernatural romance starring ... «POPSUGAR, Dec 14»
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Watch: Phil Lord & Chris Miller's 'Twilight' Parody 'Moonquake Lake …
Watch the trailer for “MoonQuake Lake”—which features RiRi as some lake-dwelling creature who facetimes for some reason—below, along ... «Indie Wire, Dec 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Moonquake [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/moonquake>. May 2024 ».
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